Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.